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From Hakata Star Lanes in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan it's IWGP Intercontinental Champion Kenny "The Cleaner" Omega vs. Michael Elgin;
and Bad Luck Fale vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi.
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Ideally the point of this was to draw in a bigger audience than you previously had. If 90% of the people watching were already familiar with the product, then they didn't do a great job as they could have here.
I would think (or at least HOPE) that they drew in new people to check out the product. They didn't do that great a job promoting the product if they didn't.
I think you can make the arguement Jericho should keep the belt though. Not that he needs it, but AEW and the belt arguably needs Jericho as far as the star power he brings. Paige, with all due respect, probaby is not a guy you want to build your company around. At least not yet.
But the bookers are his buddies, so we'll see.
Actually apparently Pac was supposed to beat Page at DON, and then lose to Omega later on.
but first
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikuleo_(wrestler) vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirooki_Goto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseburger_(wrestler) + Eli Isom + Ryan Nova
vs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Gabriel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haskins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cobb vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(wrestler) vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Carl_Ouellet vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lethal
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That makes no sense at all. If your plans were to have Pac win the title but much later down the line, Pac loses to guy who is regarded by many as the best in the world.. Pac is agreeing to that in the short term.
They are building Page to be champ not anyone else currently.
Last edited by HUTHAIFA; 06-16-2019 at 02:27 PM.
i'll take your word for it, but imo about 90% of just about all pre-shows(wrestling or otherwise) are viewed by people familiar with the product. how many people do you think tune if for UFC prelims that aren't familiar with UFC?? i would think the idea might be to give people something free and get them xcited for the main show and sell a few people who are undecided. but you probably know more than me about that so again ill take you're word for it.
if you say so. anybody know what the numbers were??I would think (or at least HOPE) that they drew in new people to check out the product. They didn't do that great a job promoting the product if they didn't.
agreed.
the same night??
You don't even need to know the numbers to figure out that they are at least TRYING to expand their audience (though Double or Nothing did almost double All In with around 100,000 buys). That's just common sense. There are a lot of wrestling fans who aren't familiar with indy wrestlers who don't have a national platform. And trying to squeeze 50 bucks out of them is a tough sell. The point of a free pre-show should be to try and convince those people to spend the 50 bucks on the product. The people already familiar with the product don't need to be sold to the same degree because they likely have an idea of what they are getting even without seeing the pre-show. They probably already saw All In, which is a better guage of what they are paying for than the pre-show.
I do get some of the logic of the battle royal, in that it used a couple former ECW and WWE guys who a casual wrestling audience might be familiar with. But in the same breath, I can understand Cornettes criticism that this match isn't the strongest selling point for the company and the PPV.
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